Donald Trump is 73 years old and he is an old school businessman, who made most of his fortune from the traditional investments (such as real estate). So it is not that unusual for him to lack an interest in innovative technologies such as cryptocurrencies. But to his credit, he never said that he hates Bitcoin. He just stated that he has no interest in it. And that makes a lot of difference. Compare his stance to that of Warren Buffet, who holds a rabid hatred towards cryptocurrency.

Why we need to take his statement in a negative way? In my opinion, any sort of publicity is good for an emerging currency such as Bitcoin. And in this incident, the president of the United States has acknowledged the existence of Bitcoin. Can we ask for anything better? I don't know how much impact can his statement have on the prices. But we just got a huge amount of free advertising.

At least here in India, the number of women who are willing to invest in cryptocurrency is relatively low. One reason may be the lack of clarity in the legal status of Bitcoin. There are rumors going around that even owning coins can send you behind bars. The men may not get scared due to these tactics, but it is having a big impact on the women.

Right now, cryptocurrency is looking like the best investment option available. Investing in Bitcoin now is similar to investing in the Yahoo stock during the late 1990s, or doing so with the Microsoft stock during the early 90s. The other options are rapidly losing their sheen. Real estate is looking like an inflated bubble, with apartments and plots overpriced and out of range for the vast majority of the population.

I am not very sure about it. During the past few months, an increasing number of countries have taken a hostile stance against the cryptocurrency and its users (examples are India, Iran, China.etc). There is no doubt that even at this stage, Bitcoin poses a real challenge for national currencies (especially the manipulated ones such as CNY and INR). So these governments may not be comfortable with the growing usage and acceptability.

A toss may be a bad idea to decide the winner. But a better idea would have been to share the trophy between the two teams. It would have been a much better option, when compared to all the controversy and heartburn we had after the super-over. And in my opinion, giving preference to boundaries, rather than the wickets make no sense at all.

It should have been 2 runs, not five or six. Ben Stokes intentionally pushed his bat forward, resulting in the ball hitting the bat. The deflection of the ball was intentional, and therefore no additional runs should have been given. The umpiring was horrible during the finals. First it was the wrong dismissal of Ross Taylor, and then it was the four additional runs that could have never been given.

Big News!!!! Altcoin market share has dipped below the 30% mark!!!

Total crypto market cap: $181,568,599,014

Bitcoin: $181,568,599,014 (65.679%)

Bitcoin forks: 2.811%

Stablecoins: 1.745%

Altcoins: 29.764%

IMO, India lost because of the following factors:

1. NZ had the advantage of the team batting first
2. India took NZ very lightly and never considered them as tough opponents
3. Dhoni, as usual failed to score the boundaries and keep scoreboard ticking
4. Younger players (Rishabh Pant, Hardick Pandya) went for unnecessary shots and got out
5. Kane Williamson used the right bowlers on specific occasions

On paper at least, England is the favorite. Their team balance is much better than that of New Zealand. Both the bowlers and the batsmen are in top form. But for New Zealand they are still facing issues with batting. But then again, the team batting first will be having an unfair advantage. So in my opinion, if NZ wins the toss and decides to bat first, then they may be having a fighting chance.

Keep on dreaming about your shitcoin HST. Bitcoin dominance has actually increased to 65.2% (according to coinmarketcap). No one cares about your HST shitcoin anymore because the promoters have made their dump and moved on. Only a few losers continue to hold on to it. None of the alts are showing any sign of a recovery, with ETH trading at 0.0234 BTC and LTC trading at 0.0089 BTC.

I agree. Bitcoin was originally designed as a currency, but there are practical difficulties in using it for that purpose (such as the delay in getting conformations, volatile exchange rates.etc). So now most of the users are treating it as an asset or as a store of value. Also, the fact that Bitcoin is protected against inflation gives an advantage if we treat it as an asset.

I am actually surprised that you had held out for so long. I stopped participating in bounties more than a year ago. The last one in which I had participated was the ADAB exchange, which turned out to be a scam, similar to many before that. Until there is a solid mechanism here to protect the bounty hunters, there is no point in participating in such campaigns. Else you can try your luck with campaigns being run by projects which are already listed, such as Veil. 

That's right. Big tournaments like this can't be fixed in anyway. But at the same time, ICC would have preferred a final between India and England, which represents the largest markets available. In case England crashes out today, then it will be a disaster for the ICC. The final will be restricted to two teams from the smallest continent. 

Two months back, they banned Bitcoin payments, and now they are "considering" allowing the trade of crypto? I hate to say this, but Russia is a few years behind in legalization of cryptocurrencies and this has resulted in large amounts of jobs being lost and crypto-ventures moving out of the country. They should follow the example set by countries such as Switzerland and Germany.

USD is the reserve currency of the world ever since the end of WW2. So you can expect it to have a great deal of acceptability. As a currency, it is accepted as a mode of payment in every nook and corner of the world. It will take ages for Bitcoin or any other crypto to catch up with the United States Dollar. But we don't need to worry about it. Out aim is not to make Bitcoin the next reserve currency.

Oh you again.... Yes, there was a quick crash in the cryptocurrency market and BTC has gone down by around 1.5K. But the alts have gone down even more. And the Bitcoin dominance has actually increased from 65.0% to 65.4%. If the current trends continue, then we may end up with a dominance of 70% by the end of this month.

Here is my list of the top gambling sites that accept Bitcoins (I have included only sites that I have used personally):

1. 777 coins
2. Primedice
3. Betking
4. FortuneJack
5. Betcoin.ag
6. Bitvest
7. Cloudbet
8. Stake.com
9. Nitrogensports
10. Dicecoin

I have heard very good feedback for some other gambling sites such as Coinroyale, Bitsler, BitCasino, Bitcoinrush.io and Jetwin, but can't vouch for them as I have never used them for making bets.

And finally you made an intelligent decision. Congrats!!!

If you had done this a few months back, it could have saved you a lot of money. But don't worry. If you are willing to take the risk, then store the amount in Bitcoin. On the other hand if you don't want to take any risk then you can cashout by converting it to either fiat cash or USDT. BTC looks attractive, after the crash yesterday. Now it has dived below 12K.

^^^ In case of Rohit, all of his centuries (6 in total were against test teams: two against Bangladesh, and one each against South Africa, Pakistan, England and Sri Lanka). Sachin scored 3 out of his 6 centuries against non-test playing teams (two against Kenya and one against Namibia), while only 3 came against test playing nations. For Sachin, 4 out of the 6 centuries were scored in India, and for Rohit 5 were scored in England and one in Australia.